Information for Patients

Uveitis is not a single disease and there is no single "best" treatment. Information on the various causes of ocular inflammatory disease and available treatments are available below.

Also see our Frequently Asked Questions section for a discussion of broader topics related to uveitis.

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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Acute Anterior Uveitis

• See Uveitis, Anterior, Acute

AIDS (See Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

Ankylosing Spondylitis

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)
• See also HLA-B27 Associated Disease

Autoimmune Diseases

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Azathioprine

• MEDLINEplus

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Behcet's Disease

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Birdshot Retinochoroidopathy

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page)

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Cat Scratch Disease

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Cataract

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

CellCept See Mycophenolate mofetil

Chlorambucil

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Chronic Anterior Uveitis (See Uveitis, Anterior, Chronic)

Corticosteroids

• Ophthalmic (Drops or Ointment)
  • MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

• Systemic (Pills, Intravenous, or Intramuscular)
  • MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Cyclophosphamide

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Cyclosporine

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Retinitis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

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Enbrel See Etanercept

Etanercept

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus

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Fuchs Heterochromic Iridocyclitis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

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Gamma globulin

• MEDLINEplus

Glaucoma

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

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Herpes Simplex

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Herpes Zoster (Shingles)

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Histoplasmosis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

HIV (See Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

HLA-B27 Associated Disease

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (See Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

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Immune System

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

• MEDLINEplus

Iritis

• See Uveitis, Anterior, Acute

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Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA)

• See Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

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Lupus (See Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Lyme Disease

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation
• MEDLINE plus (National Institutes of Health)

Lymphoma, Intraocular See Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

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Methotrexate

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Mooren's Ulcer

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

Mycophenolate mofetil

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

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Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

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Pars plana vitrectomy

• See Vitrectomy for Uveitis

Pars Planitis See Uveitis, Intermediate

Posner-Schlossman Syndrome

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

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Reiter's Syndrome

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)
• See also HLA-B27 Associated Disease

Remicade (See Infliximab)

Retinal Vasculitis (See Vasculitis, Retinal)

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Sarcoidosis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Scleritis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

Serpiginous Choroidopathy

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Shingles (See Herpes Zoster)

Surgery, Uveitis after

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

Sympathetic Ophthalmia

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

Syphilis

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)
• See also Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE or Lupus)

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation
• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

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Tacrolimus

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Toxoplasmosis

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Tuberculosis

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

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Uveitis

• MEDLINEplus (National Institutes of Health)

Uveitis, Anterior, Acute

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

Uveitis, Anterior, Chronic

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

Uveitis, Intermediate

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

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Vasculitis, Retinal

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

Vitrectomy in Uveitis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (PDF)

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

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Wegener's Granulomtosis

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph (Web Page) (PDF)

White Dot Syndromes

• UveitisSociety.org Monograph In Preparation

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Zoster (See Herpes Zoster)